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to be sold at an average price of seven dollars per acre, and no 
greater advance than fifty cents per acre should be made during 
each of the following years. Besides this the company promised 
to donate 320 acres for the support of churches and high 
schools when one hundred actual settlers had been secured. 
For these privileges the church promised to use its influence in 
securing settlers. This settlement, in spite of considerable 
bickering and quarreling between the land agent, the church 
and the settlers, was fairly successful. The one hundred settlers 
were secured within a year, and at present the settlement con¬ 
tains about a thousand Danes who are maintaining a high 
school, a parochial school and a church. It is a settlement 
apparently as Grundtvigian and Danish as any existing in the 
United States. An attempt was made in 1888 to establish a 
settlement in Logan county, in the extreme western part of 
Kansas. On the invitation of the Union Pacific Railroad 
company the land committee of the church went out and in¬ 
spected the land during the month of May. They were com¬ 
pletely captivated with the fertility of the soil and the salubrity 
of the climate. They secured an option on four townships of 
land, to be sold to Danes at from four to six dollars an acre. 
They then proceeded to extol the advantages of the place, lay¬ 
ing special stress on the fiction that the rainfall, which at 
present was quite sufficient, would still farther increase as the 
land was brought under cultivation. This, however, proved a 
mistaken theory, and the colony dried up in its infancy, while 
the reputation of the ministers as practical farmers and coloniz¬ 
ers was badly damaged. This was the last attempt on the part of 
the church as an organization to form settlements. The idea 
however has not been abandoned, but has been taken up by the 
Dansk Folkesamfnnd (the society of the Danish people). This 
society has located two more settlements, one in Clark county, 
Wisconsin, and another in Wharton county, Texas. As yet these 
settlements are both in their infancy; like the settlement in 
Kansas, they are the cause of much newspaper correspondence of 
a decidedly unfriendly character, in which disappointed land 
agents are taking a prominent part, making it appear that the 
land selected is worthless and that the land committee was 
